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Perry continues to attack Romney as a flip-flopper

Rick Perry is continuing his efforts to portray Mitt Romney as a flip-flopper, releasing a video this morning that highlights changes Romney made to his book.

The video, created by Perry’s “Truth Team,” quotes Romney saying, “Words have meaning.” It then shows that Romney deleted the following phrase, in reference to Massachusetts’ health care plan, from a later edition of his book:

“We can accomplish the same thing for everyone in this country.”

As we noted on Saturday, Perry launched a similar attack during the most recent GOP debate. But his point was lost in a muddled, confusing monologue.

This jab is certainly cleaner. It puts the focus back on Romney’s biggest weakness, and the deletion is pretty black-and-white.

But Politifact found that Perry is exaggerating the implications of the Romney’s about-face. And Romney has repeatedly explained the Massachusetts plan like this: “This is a state plan for a state. It is not a national plan.”